What did you do in the reloading room today?

[JasonWi]

FL sized, trimmed, chamfered, deburred, cleaned primer pockets on all my 1x fired 7RM brass.

 

[49ereric]

Fire forming the “poor man’s magnum” 8mm/338 cases today that were made from 7 mm Remington magnum cases.
I have another 50 cases to shoot with 154 grain Turk bullets out of a little over 200 cases. Whoever ends up with this rifle after I am gone, will at least have ammo for this

 

[JasonWi]

Fire forming the “poor man’s magnum” 8mm/338 cases today that were made from 7 mm Remington magnum cases.
I have another 50 cases to shoot with 154 grain Turk bullets out of a little over 200 cases. Whoever ends up with this rifle after I am gone, will at least have ammo for this wildcat.
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This is a unique chambering. What bullets and powder do you typically hunt with? I’m sure this is a very lethal combination

 

[49ereric]

This is a unique chambering. What bullets and powder do you typically hunt with? I’m sure this is a very lethal combination

The old timer I bought the rifle from long ago used a 236 grain Herters bullet for his Colorado elk hunts. I am using a 200 grain spear hot/cor for deer hunting but all I got is a dog in the woods so far the last couple years.
Powder is surplus 4831 and older CCI primers that came with the rifle.

 

[Nykki]

Loaded up some 444 Marlin, plinking rounds. 33gr IMR 4198 behind Acme 240gr cast.swc, trying to keep them below 1600fps. I'll take it to the range tomorrow.
Cleaned and sorted 300 pieces of 243 brass.

 

[paul1k2k]

Cut out foam for a small pelican case to hold my universal inline seating die parts!

 

[Ophidian]

Decapped 100 6mm arc cases and wet tumbled them.
Very close to getting that project up and running once I get the rifle and can determine proper seating depth for TTSX

 

[bpitcher]

Settled on a 108 load for the 6CM. Rehabbed the 40 cases from yesterday.

Reloaded 13. Need to run out and grab some more bullets and powder.

 

[Torque]

Annealed 50 Peterson 270 brass, body sized down with a 25-06 body die, uniformed primer pockets, uniformed/deburred flash holes, cleaned, trimmed to 2.529 (my 25-06 chamber length), Lee collet to .002 neck tension

Next is wasting some extremely long 129g Hammer bullets that were chaff in a trade deal for fireforming. They are so long, there should be no problem jamming them into the lands.

 

[Torque]

Cut out foam for a small pelican case to hold my universal inline seating die parts!
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You did a really good job on that. I am terrible at cutting the foam out the way I want it to be.

 

[paul1k2k]

You did a really good job on that. I am terrible at cutting the foam out the way I want it to be.

I have to come clean... it was pick and pluck foam.

 

[Ophidian]

Decapped ~200 pieces of once fired 6.5creed brass and tumbled. There is still a little gunk in the primer pockets so im going to run them through again for 3 hours so i can get them ready to trade/sell.

 

[bpitcher]

I told myself I was done messing around with load development, but then I found a box of 112 Match Burners on the shelf at the local store...

 

[JasonWi]

I told myself I was done messing around with load development, but then I found a box of 112 Match Burners on the shelf at the local store...

The store basically forced you into buying them! It’s not your fault they had them in stock, honestly you probably saved another person from tinkering too…you sir are a giver

 

[bpitcher]

The store basically forced you into buying them! It’s not your fault they had them in stock, honestly you probably saved another person from tinkering too…you sir are a giver

That's right. Got to support your local businesses!

 

[BigDog00]

Fireformed some .223 AI brass. Have some more to shoot this weekend, then will start working up loads. I did have a strange ring around the middle of about 20 pieces. Some of them had a bit of carbon right above so I'm thinking the brass sealed better below the ring when the case blew out to fit the AI chamber. It my first AI/wildcat so I'm learning as I go.